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Willie’s lesson (1939)

Willie collapses in the snow. He is found just in time by a rabbit, who summons help from the others. The following season, Willie takes a barrow full of fruit to the bank for deposit. He turns to the camera ... [read more]

‘Sue me, Phil’ (2008)

Dominick Dunne reacts angrily to the declaration of a mistrial in the Phil Spector murder case. [read more]

War bonds march (1941)

This black-and-white segment shows part of a war bonds march held in Adelaide in 1941. The march includes tanks and floats displaying slogans to buy more war loan bonds; floats covered with Australian flags and Union Jacks; and one float ... [read more]

‘I’m coming to get you’ (2010)

At the very start of the film a young man (J, played by James Frecheville) is on the couch watching a TV game show while an older woman sits slumped – apparently asleep – beside him. A few seconds later ... [read more]

Re-enacting the story (2007)

Anmatjere elders Patsy and Jane Briscoe tell the story of Bungalung around the campfire at night. Two young men act out the story. They travel through the bush and come across a fireplace. [read more]

East to West (1999)

A young girl peers out of a car window as her father drives her home. Voice-over narration in this clip is by Anita Beckman. [read more]

‘Don’t come back, Tessa’ (1994)

Tessa (Pamela Rabe) is remembering the night, at age 16, that her life changed forever. She closes a window and, at the next moment, her sixteen-year-old self (Simone Pengelly) falls into the room, in the midst of a miscarriage. Later, ... [read more]

Judgement day (2005)

A secret surfing competition has been set up between Anna (Mara Scherzinger) and Joe (Matt Rudduck) to determine which of them gets the coveted seventh spot in the Solar Blue Surf Academy. Joe has chosen The Gallows, a treacherous surfing ... [read more]

What you need to know (1974)

This is one of the two television advertisements produced to facilitate the change to metric on Australian roads in July 1974. [read more]

Contraband (1938)

Customs officers try in vain to stop the illegal importation of various contraband goods which come in to the country by sea. ‘Men of the underworld’ – shady drug dealers and crime bosses – are shown under ‘cover of darkness’ ... [read more]

The spare parts racket (2006)

Cars are not only stolen to be shipped to other countries, they’re also stolen to be stripped for spare parts. The problem for the police and prosecutors is that most car parts are not marked with the vehicle’s identification number. [read more]

Bush medicine (1982)

Wandjuk Marika is visiting Melbourne from his home in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. He shows Geoffrey Blainey some of the plants and leaves that Aboriginals use to keep colds and other ailments at bay. Geoffrey Blainey recalls the ... [read more]

Pop star (1990)

Wilton grants CW’s wish to be the most exciting person in the whole world in order to induce Katie (Ebony Ricketson) to fall in love with him. Instantly, CW is a famous rock star with a gigantic hit song ‘The ... [read more]

Berlei corsets (1920)

Two women dressed in dark underwear, silk stockings and shoes model two styles of Berlei corsetry. They stand on raised platforms in front of a plain backdrop, the larger space of the studio visible beyond it. They turn, step down ... [read more]

‘You can’t take my photograph’ (1985)

At a bush camp, Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski) is at first spooked by the quiet arrival of an Aboriginal man in face paint. Mick (Paul Hogan) introduces Neville (David Gulpilil), a 'real city-boy’, and then goes with him to a ... [read more]

Embers (2004)

The crafting of the number seven boomerang refines what was once a tree stump and root, to create a weapon that is used for both self-defence and hunting. The Elders watch over the work, while telling us how they once ... [read more]

An Australian voice (1977)

A powerful use of an actor’s voice over photographs of Mrs McLeod Lindsay, as she struggles to recall the events of that terrible night when she was brutally attacked. [read more]

Australian wilderness (1980)

Bob Brown paddles along the tranquil final stretches of the Franklin River. This is as it must have looked even before the first Europeans arrived in Tasmania. [read more]

Talking at the beach (2007)

A young woman’s grandfather has died and she has returned to Stradbroke Island to support her grandmother. Grandma (Freda Glynn) and her Granddaughter (Amy Miller-Porter) take a walk down to the beach at sunset. [read more]

The girl of Lockie’s dreams (2006)

It’s enrolment day for Lockie (Sean Keenan) at his new high school and his brother Phillip (Corey McKernan), sister ‘Blob’ (Georgina Schober) and mother Joy (Briony Williams) accompany him. After failing to impress teacher and counseller John East (Ewen Leslie), ... [read more]

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